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assessment
Preferred term
personality assessment
Definition
- Personality assessment, in its broadest sense, includes any technique that is used to describe or make inferences about the characteristic traits, attitudes, beliefs, values, needs, motives, emotional states, coping styles, or aspirations of an individual. Personality assessment can take many forms, including an Internet dating questionnaire, an epitaph, a letter of recommendation, a psychodiagnosis, an integrity test administered as part of an employment application, and a psychobiography based on a historical record. [Source: Encyclopedia of Counseling; Personality Assessment]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anxiety assessment
- attachment
- attitudes
- attribution styles
- burnout assessment
- cognitive styles
- coping styles
- emotion
- five-factor model of personality
- interests (psychology)
- leadership personality
- motivation
- optimism
- personal constructs
- personality assessment through longitudinal designs
- person/situation assessment
- prosocial behavior
- Q-sort
- self-control
- self-efficacy
- self-presentation measurement
- sensation seeking
- social competence
- temperament
- time orientation
- trait-state models
- values (guiding principles)
- wellbeing
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/personality_assessment
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